Sv: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Again, herdsmen attack Benue community, rape monarch’s wife, others – Punch Newspapers ( Fulani Herdsmen Terrorism in Nigeria)

​Oluwatoyin, please don't allow your hatred for Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria to blur your sense of reasoning and justice.  To begin with the File Photo of a Herder accompanying the article has nothing to do with the report of the herdsmen's purported atrocity directed at the traditional ruler's family. The file photo of the herder did not depict him as aggressive and combat ready since he hung his rifle loosely around his neck and shoulder with the mouth of the pipe to the gun not facing the front but back. The file photo actually project the herder as a careless defender and not as an extremist and violent prone attacker.

The expression *suspected Fulani herdsmen* used in describing the purported attackers of traditional ruler's home, is an indication that the true identities of the attackers are not known. The reporter wrote, "The herdsmen allegedly raped the traditional ruler's wife and two of his in-laws and destroyed crops stored in the barn." With this report, one is made to believe that the traditional ruler stood-by to witness the rape of his wife and two of his in-laws as well as the destruction of crops stored in the barn by the suspected herdsmen. However, the reporter in the next breath quoted the victim as having said, "The traditional ruler, Tyoor Chado said the herdsmen numbering about 11 attacked his residence around 2am. The livestock guards ….. told me they (his wife and in-laws) were tortured, raped but not killed. He further said the herdsmen used cassava, melon and yam from his barn to feed their animals." It is remarkable that Tyoor Chado could count the number of the attackers in a dark early morning, at 2am. It was the livestock guards who found his wife and the two in-laws and reported that they have been tortured and raped, thereby contradicting false impression earlier that the traditional ruler saw his wife and his two in-laws raped. We are now being made to know that the suspected Fulani herdsmen did not destroy crops stored in the barn, rather they fed their animals with cassava, melon and yam stored in the barn, implying that  the suspected herdsmen had their cattle with them at the scene of the crime. With that evidence their chance of escaping from arrest must have been very small since walking on foot with the cattle from the scene of crime after 2am could not have been so far away at dawn. Then if livestock guards found Tyoor Chado's wife and his two in-laws,  where are the suspected Fulani herdsmen and their cattle?

S. Kadiri   

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Thanks, Salimonu.

I wonder too.

The recurrence of such news, escalating since Buhari's 2015 ascension, reported in Nigerian news media and reinforced by international  terrorist watch agencies that give precise statistics of these attacks and killings by Fulani militia, described by these agencies as the 2nd or third most lethal terrorist group in the world baffles me.

I am also concerned about the nation wide mobilization agst Fulani herdsmen, of which the SW Amotekun outfit is the most prominent.

Some people on social media are even beginning to describe the Buhari govt as a terrorist govt.

Can you imagine?!

de tin tire me.

The reporter does not even seem to have the courage to state exactly what was stated by those whose account they are reporting, which should be, 'Fulani herdsmen are described as ...'

but it no longer allowed to string together 'Fulani' and 'herdsmen' in an expression when dealing with accounts of violence and terrorism.

Self censorship?

Who are the ghosts carrying out this carnage that for years had the full support of Miyetti Allah Fulani Socio-Cultural Organisation and on whose behalf the Buhari govt has spoken?

 

On Fri, 6 Mar 2020 at 20:05, Salimonu Kadiri <ogunlakaiye@hotmail.com> wrote:

​Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju, 

​Don't you think you are parading fake news concerning Fulani Herdsmen Terrorism in Nigeria with the link posted by you below?

​S. Kadiri

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https://punchng.com/again-herdsmen-attack-benue-community-rape-monarchs-wife-others/

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